iaxmodem command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

iaxmodem: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iaxmodem: command not found

Solutions to iaxmodem: command not found

How To Fix iaxmodem: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu iaxmodem is provided by iaxmodem package.

iaxmodem is:

IAXmodem is a software modem written in C that uses an IAX channel (commonly provided by an Asterisk PBX system) instead of a traditional phone line and uses a DSP library instead of DSP hardware chipsets.

IAXmodem was originally conceived to function as a fax modem usable with HylaFAX, and it does that well. However IAXmodem also has been known to function with mgetty+sendfax and efax.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install iaxmodem

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install iaxmodem.

sudo apt -y install iaxmodem

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install iaxmodem

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix iaxmodem command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.